FIERCE SUNDAY GALE.
PICNICKERS DRENCHED. iiUar TREES BLOCK ROAJML SCORES Of CUBS HELD UP. (ByTelampb/—Press Association.) CHEISTCHUECH, this day. Accompanied by thunder and lightning and torrential xain, a fierce southwest (tons broke over Canterbury late yesterday afternoon, uprooting trees, wrecking buildings and drenching thousands of picnickers who had been, lured out of town by the glorious weather of the morning. At one point seven big trees were thrown across * road, and scores of cars were held up.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 10
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77FIERCE SUNDAY GALE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 268, 12 November 1928, Page 10
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